Really? A bit of light mizzle was falling when we headed out, so we decided to head for La Tania (I wonder if the cool people call it ‘Ta’) as it has some reasonable red runs above the resort in the trees. That worked well and by then the cloud had started to lift so we headed over to Courch for yet another run in the family park…. Some of the jumps were closed as they were stretchering a child off. (Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?)

We should talk about the snow at this point. When we arrived they were reporting over a metre at the resort and 3m at the top, levels I don’t recall seeing before. For the first 4 days the snow was to all intents and purposes perfect, even those horrid last 200m down into the resorts had good snow depth. It was a touch icy and in need of a good bashing by the end of the day but otherwise perfect. Then it rained on and off for about 36 hours…. and the snow seems to have survived much better than I would have expected. Resort level is slushy on top but there is a still a good hard base underneath. We saw one or two brown spots in La Tania but nothing really. When it freezes again it will be very icy until it gets some fresh snow on top. Above 2500m the snow is perfect, it’s had about 30cm extra during the week. Even that horrible stony wind swept bit off the top of Saulire is good snow.

Anyway we ate our sandwiches in the same place as before in Courch and found a new trick, send a hungry teenager to the nearest “snack” to get some chips to supplement them, assuming you don’t mind paying €14 for two bowls of chips of course….

We spent the afternoon on the red runs of Saulire, basically skiing between layers of cloud, with fluffy snow at the top and slushy snow at the bottom. Nearly sunny at one point.

On the way back we stopped off at “La Piste de Inuite” where they have all kinds of activities. The “feed your most annoying child to a husky” (I think I am translating that right) event seem to have been cancelled but there was a guy doing some Ice Carving.

All in ll slightly frustrating weather, but we got lucky chasing what bright and dry conditions there were and had a great day to end the week.